Working jobs where I had to count the nightly deposit and it was 3x the biweekly pay of the whole staff despite corporate doing diddly squat in the running of the store is what radicalized me. Turns out you pick up the Labor Theory of Value real quick once you've lived it.
Likewise, I'm willing to disbelieve the official government position and the mainstream media because they proved themselves untrustworthy. The Iraq War dispelled any illusion I had that these people would tell the truth, and learning about things like the government's interventions in other countries and in the country's own social movements for racial equality in the 60s or wealth redistribution in the 2010s made me realize that their interests were directly opposed to my own. Though it wasn't until I had a proper materialist grounding with a Marxist education that I was able to look objectively and critically at international relations.
Working jobs where I had to count the nightly deposit and it was 3x the biweekly pay of the whole staff despite corporate doing diddly squat in the running of the store is what radicalized me. Turns out you pick up the Labor Theory of Value real quick once you've lived it.
Likewise, I'm willing to disbelieve the official government position and the mainstream media because they proved themselves untrustworthy. The Iraq War dispelled any illusion I had that these people would tell the truth, and learning about things like the government's interventions in other countries and in the country's own social movements for racial equality in the 60s or wealth redistribution in the 2010s made me realize that their interests were directly opposed to my own. Though it wasn't until I had a proper materialist grounding with a Marxist education that I was able to look objectively and critically at international relations.
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